It doesn’t matter that it’s Zoom: Leslie Jordan needs to find his light. When the pandemic hit in early spring, Jordan hunkered down in Tennessee, where his mother and identical twin sisters live. They said, ‘Mayim Bialik’ and ‘a room full of cats in a cat cafe,’ [and] I said, ‘I’m aboard,’” Jordan recalls. When Jordan was growing up, his dad was a lieutenant colonel in the Army, “a man’s man.” “There was a feeling that I was a little bit of a disappointment,” Jordan recalls. By the time he entered high school, he decided to come out: “I would tell my friends, ‘I have a secret: I’m gay.’ And they’re like, ‘Duh!

Source: Los Angeles Times January 03, 2021 16:12 UTC